Yes, people do need to take some personal responsibility, but also corporations engineering products that are unhealthy and addictive and marketers spending billions to convince people its good stuff… is not a great system.
Why does our environment need to be so adversarial?
This is a reasonable question, but also, I don’t feel like my environment is all that adversarial most of the time. The corporations can go ahead and develop their products, and I will continue to not buy them - same as I don’t buy cigarettes. And I can’t remember the last time I say, eg, a Doritos commercial, since I have ad blockers on my browsers and don’t watch cable tv or listen to radio stations almost ever. I would say that the most adversarial aspect of my environment is the fact that I have to drive most places to get anywhere, and when I drive, I drive past Taco Bell. And that’s a whole thing.
Yes, people do need to take some personal responsibility, but also corporations engineering products that are unhealthy and addictive and marketers spending billions to convince people its good stuff… is not a great system.
Why does our environment need to be so adversarial?
This is a reasonable question, but also, I don’t feel like my environment is all that adversarial most of the time. The corporations can go ahead and develop their products, and I will continue to not buy them - same as I don’t buy cigarettes. And I can’t remember the last time I say, eg, a Doritos commercial, since I have ad blockers on my browsers and don’t watch cable tv or listen to radio stations almost ever. I would say that the most adversarial aspect of my environment is the fact that I have to drive most places to get anywhere, and when I drive, I drive past Taco Bell. And that’s a whole thing.